[SOLVED] Restoring from old proxmox server

[PXMX1001]

Hi all,

I built a new proxmox server with completely new hardware. I moved the old 1tb ssd into the new server with the new 2tb ssd with a new proxmox os installed. During proxmox installation, It wanted me to rename all the old 1tb ssd vm's as pve--old--####. I let it do that. I need to know how to transfer all the old virtual machines onto the new server. Please help me do this. I will show you the output from 'lsblk'

nvme0n1                                     259:0    0   1.9T  0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1                                 259:1    0  1007K  0 part
├─nvme0n1p2                                 259:2    0     1G  0 part /boot/efi
└─nvme0n1p3                                 259:3    0   1.9T  0 part
  ├─pve-swap                                252:0    0     8G  0 lvm  [SWAP]
  ├─pve-root                                252:1    0    96G  0 lvm  /
  ├─pve-data_tmeta                          252:2    0  15.9G  0 lvm 
  │ └─pve-data                              252:8    0   1.7T  0 lvm 
  └─pve-data_tdata                          252:3    0   1.7T  0 lvm 
    └─pve-data                              252:8    0   1.7T  0 lvm 
nvme1n1                                     259:4    0 931.5G  0 disk
├─nvme1n1p1                                 259:5    0  1007K  0 part
├─nvme1n1p2                                 259:6    0     1G  0 part
└─nvme1n1p3                                 259:7    0 930.5G  0 part
  ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-swap                 252:4    0     8G  0 lvm 
  ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-root                 252:5    0    96G  0 lvm 
  ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-data_tmeta           252:6    0   8.1G  0 lvm 
  │ └─pve--OLD--60EDF728-data-tpool         252:9    0 794.3G  0 lvm 
  │   ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-data             252:10   0 794.3G  1 lvm 
  │   ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--101--disk--0 252:11   0     4M  0 lvm 
  │   ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--101--disk--1 252:12   0   300G  0 lvm 
  │   ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--201--disk--3 252:13   0 390.1G  0 lvm 
  │   ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--201--disk--0 252:14   0     4M  0 lvm 
  │   ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--100--disk--0 252:15   0     4M  0 lvm 
  │   ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--100--disk--1 252:16   0    32G  0 lvm 
  │   ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--105--disk--0 252:17   0    20G  0 lvm 
  │   ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--106--disk--0 252:18   0     4M  0 lvm 
  │   ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--106--disk--1 252:19   0    20G  0 lvm 
  │   ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--102--disk--0 252:20   0     4M  0 lvm 
  │   ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--102--disk--1 252:21   0    50G  0 lvm 
  │   ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--104--disk--0 252:22   0     4M  0 lvm 
  │   └─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--104--disk--1 252:23   0    32G  0 lvm 
  └─pve--OLD--60EDF728-data_tdata           252:7    0 794.3G  0 lvm 
    └─pve--OLD--60EDF728-data-tpool         252:9    0 794.3G  0 lvm 
      ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-data             252:10   0 794.3G  1 lvm 
      ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--101--disk--0 252:11   0     4M  0 lvm 
      ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--101--disk--1 252:12   0   300G  0 lvm 
      ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--201--disk--3 252:13   0 390.1G  0 lvm 
      ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--201--disk--0 252:14   0     4M  0 lvm 
      ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--100--disk--0 252:15   0     4M  0 lvm 
      ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--100--disk--1 252:16   0    32G  0 lvm 
      ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--105--disk--0 252:17   0    20G  0 lvm 
      ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--106--disk--0 252:18   0     4M  0 lvm 
      ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--106--disk--1 252:19   0    20G  0 lvm 
      ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--102--disk--0 252:20   0     4M  0 lvm 
      ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--102--disk--1 252:21   0    50G  0 lvm 
      ├─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--104--disk--0 252:22   0     4M  0 lvm 
      └─pve--OLD--60EDF728-vm--104--disk--1 252:23   0    32G  0 lvm

 

[PXMX1001]

This was the working command:

qm remote-migrate 101 101 'apitoken=PVEAPIToken=root@pam!root=<APITOKEN>,host=192.168.1.197,fingerprint=<FINGERPRINT>' --target-bridge vmbr0 --target-storage local-lvm --online 1

 

[PXMX1001]

Also, how to obtain fingerprint and API key:

1) API Key
- Create API key in datacenter --> Permissions --> API tokens
- Create administrator permissions for API key in datacenter --> permissions --> Add permissions
- Use the secret key created and place in the command

2) Fingerprint
- Obtain the fingerprint by initially running the command without fingerprint. Example below:

qm remote-migrate 101 101 'apitoken=PVEAPIToken=root@pam!root=<APITOKEN>,host=192.168.1.197' --target-bridge vmbr0 --target-storage local-lvm --online 1

- It will give the fingerprint and then copy and paste it into the code I provided above

 

[rjkbj]

Did you get your new hardware working? If it's just a single node, the easiest way is to back up all VM's, install the OS on your new SSD, then restore each VM from your backup.

 

[PXMX1001]

qm remote-migrate is even easier. It worked perfectly.